Thread by @JBelcourt73

One thing about Russian trolls, tankies and the hard parts of both Left and Right ideologies is that they are literally stuck on stupid. Encountered a new one yesterday, minor account with few followers but he repeated an oft used reasoning

1. it didn't happen
2. But if it did happen it wasn't a war crime
3. if it was a war crime it was the soldiers fault
4. If it was a war crime it was the unit's fault
5. If it was a war crime its not genocide
6. if it is genocide its not Putin's/Russia's fault
7. You hate Russia

The crime of genocide is listed here ohchr.org/en/instruments…

lets go through the crimes with article and sub part examples. Article 1: Contracting Parties. Russia as the successor state to the USSR was an original signatory to the convention and has been a high contracting party since December 1949. She is bound by the convention.

Article II (a) Killing members of the group. Obviously, this does not include soldiers but does include all classes of protected persons. My example here is the bombing of the Mariupol Theater cnn.com/2022/03/16/eur…

Article II (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm. How to quantify that? Well, ask yourself what kind of mental trauma would you suffer if you had to suddenly run for your life? theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…

Article II (c) (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; What effect do you think the destruction of civil infrastructure like power plants heading into winter is going to do? Blowing dams,

, targeting hospitals and schools? marketwatch.com/story/russian-…

Article II (d) deals with people under the direct control of a government and we don't have enough information yet. This could be a maybe as more information is developed.

Article II (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. ibtimes.com/un-evidence-ru…

Article III lays out what acts are punishable

(a) Genocide;

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;

(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

(d) Attempt to commit genocide;

(e) Complicity in genocide.

Given the articles in II require state actions then III (a) (b), (d) and (e) are de jure facts. So I want to concentrate on (c) direct and public incitement to commit genocide. If you don't follow @JuliaDavisNews go give her a follow and watch her translations with an eye towards

Article III (c) they don't hide it. BTW, nuclear threats fall under (c) as well. Any attempts to deny what Russia is doing are dishonest attempts to make the aggressor look like the victim. #NFAO does not support #Ukraine because we like Nazis, but because we oppose the

Russian version of naziism set loose upon the world. We do not love war, but realize that the only end to the genocide is for the full defeat of Russia and ejection from every inch of Ukrainian soil. We are not Russophobic in the way Southern Whites were racist against blacks,

rather we recognize Russia's history as the world's oldest, biggest and most brutal colonial empire still existing with a history of genocide and aggression. We see clearly that very few Russian's have raised a voice to oppose Russian imperialism, colonialism or genocide.

I have things other than writing these essays and tagging @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill I could be doing. How many different ways can I ask you to donate to @MriyaAid, @U24_gov_ua, @3xR_team or whatever @Teoyaomiquu is currently fund raising for. I have now

now asked my readers to listen in on, and follow the @MriyaReport well over 200 consecutive times. I do these things, giving up hundreds of hours of my life because what Russia is doing is a genocide. Russia is not a victim but #RussiaisATerroistState Sadly, with the liberation

of Kherson we will see more evidence of genocide in the coming days.Its why Western support is so vital. Millions remain trapped under the Russian heel. Until Ukraine Wins On Ukraine's Terms: Slava Ukraini! #Russiaislosing #UkraineWillWin #ukrainecounteroffensive #UkrainianArmy

@mfa_russia <--- still losing and no one at the G20 likes you, not even China.